Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Oct 1, 2019

Fall is here.  The furnace came on several times last night.  It seems that these last five months flew by.  Debbie and I discussed the weather patterns that we have had during our trip and we concluded that we only really enjoyed about four weeks of really warm summer weather.  We saw that the prairies got snow yesterday.  We are hoping that it will be gone by the time we start our trek west. 

Today we are leaving Charlottetown and heading back to Nova Scotia.  We want to visit Joggins, a UNESCO site.  We have seen the Bay of Fundy before but we missed going to Joggins.  This site features high cliffs at low tide that reveal a fossilized forest.  We hope to see that.  

We left Charlottetown by 10:00 and took a secondary road along the shores all the way to the Confederation Bridge.  We just cruised along looking at the farms that ended right at the shore.  Many of the farmhouses are already decorated, the fronts of the houses with fall decorations and Halloween decorations and pumpkins on the steps. 

We drove through the tollbooths after paying $56.00, and then were stopped in the parking lot for quite a long time as there were two oversize vehicles crossing from New Brunswick and they took up the whole width of the bridge.  

We finally made it into Amherst, Nova Scotia.  Debbie wanted to visit a famous rug hooker and also some quilt shops in Amherst.  We shared a lobster roll in a local pub, and then Debbie went on the hunt for the rug hooker.  I went to the post office and mailed five parcels- things that we had bought, that were now taking too much space in out little trailer.  I then walked through the downtown of Amherst.  This town of 9,000 people has some beautiful heritage buildings and an interesting history.  It is also the home of Sir Charles Tupper, the 6^thPrime Minister of Canada. Tupper was also the Premier of Nova Scotia and brought the province into the Confederation.

We located a commercial campground on the edge of the town and secured a site for the next two nights.  We finished yesterday’s stew, (it tasted even better), we read and then went to bed.